Dowth Hall News Today

The park will cover 70,000 acres and seas and will be Ireland’s first Marine National Park.

Minister and Kerry TD Norma Foley said ‘things are going in the right direction’.

International buyers, particularly from Britain and the US, have shown keen interest in Ireland’s prime country homes

Enterprise Minister Simon Coveney pitched the sale of the Dowth Hall Estate in Meath to ­Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue before it was bought by the Department of Housing.

Justice Minister Helen McEntee’s uncle and former director of elections Tony McEntee lobbied two of her Fine Gael cabinet colleagues weeks before the company of which he is chief executive sold land to the State for €11m.

Devenish Nutrition lobbied four Ministers to establish whether State was interested in buying Dowth lands including large part of Unesco World Heritage Brú na Bóinne site

The ruins of Dangan Castle near Summerhill in Co Meath sit on 236 acres of tillage, grassland and forestry

Agriculture will be at the centre of Ireland’s newest National Park, Boyne Valley National Park, to be created from the 552-acre Dowth Hall estate

The news that Dowth Hall demesne has been purchased by the State and as Boyne Valley (Brú na Bóinne) National Park will become the North East’s only national park, has been greeted warmly at a local level.

FEATURE: From Grand National to National Park 2023-10-06